Agence France-Presse,
BERLIN: The German army celebrated its 50th anniversary on Wednesday with a parade in front of the highly symbolic Reichstag parliamentary building.
Several people were injured when police used truncheons against protestors, numbering up to 2,500, angered at what they saw as a parade that rekindled memories of Germany's imperial and Nazi past.
Some 40 leftist groups tried unsuccessfully to have the parade by the Bundeswehr blocked by the courts.
The Reichstag, destroyed by fire days after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, became the seat of reunited Germany's parliament the Bundestag.
